Drier



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DRIER Original Filed Nov. 6, 1951 A TTORNEYS.

2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Oct. 6, 1936 STATES PATENT OFFICE DRIER Application November 6, 1931, Serial No. 578 626- Renewed February 29, 19%

imits (or; rod-5 o This invention is particularly designed for dry-=- ing clothes and as exemplified is shown in connection with a drier in which the clothes are placed in a flexible bag and subjected to a squeezing action through the operation of a fluid on the bag, the extruded moisture being discharged from the clothes under pressure through the outlet, ordinarily through "the cover. The present invention is designed to improve the manner of securing and adjusting the cover with relation to the receptacle so as to facilitate the insertion and removal of the clothes and for di== renting the discharge of water from the recepta cle. Features and details of the invention will appear from the specification and claims. I

A preferred embodiment of the invention is il-v lustrated in the accompanying drawings as fol-1 lows:-

Fig. 1 shows a central vertical section through 50 the drier.

Fig. 2 a plan View of the drier.

Fig. 3 a view of the under-side of the cover.

' Fig. 4 a section on the line 4-4 in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 a section on the line 55 in Fig. 2. l marks the receptacle. It has a. beaded edge as 2 arod its opening and a gasket seating groove 2; adjacent to the edge. A means of supplyingv fluid, usually water, to the receptacle is indicated at d. I

39 A flexible bag 5 has a sealing rib 8 around its upper edge adapted to seat in the groove 3. I

The cover "i has a tapered exterior edge 8 which engages the rib 6 forming an initial seal as the cover is put into place, the bead being definitely sealed by the pressure of the-liquid as it is ad- The cover is provided mitted to the receptacle.

with a perforated straining plate 9 and this leads to a discharge passage l0 iromwhich leads -a.

spout ll extending from the side of the cover 40 and away from the side of the receptacle.

The cover is provided with a series ofradial projections l2 arranged just above the edge or the receptacle. 7 a

A locking ring I! is of channel form, the lower 45 flange extending under the beaded edge 2 and the upper flange being slotted forming projections ll corresponding to the projections 12. The projections l4 and the projections l2 and the slots between them are so related to each other to tom a bayonet joint permitting cover by a downward movement of the cover 7 carrying the projections on the cover between the projections on the ring and locking the cover in place by turning it circumterentially to bring the 55 projections I! under and into register with the the assembly of v the projections iii in the manner oi an ordinary bayo net joint.

The cover is hinged on thering and is preferably provided with .two hinge pintles it, these hinge pintles being secured to lugs it extending a from the ring. The pintles are approximately tangent to the circle of the cover and the hinge butts ll are pivotally mounted on the pintle, these butts having preferably flaring openings so that they may move in a circular direction on the lit pintles. The pintles are of sufiicient length to permit the assembly of the projections on the cover through the-slots between the projections it and then a turning of the cover through the freedom oi the lugs lion the pintles it so as to it bring the cover into locked position.

The locking ring is preferably split having a pivotal connection through a bolt it at the hinge and a securing screw Is at the point of separation opposite the hinge. w

I prefer to arrange the spout directly opposite the hinge so that the spout may form a. ready handle for lifting thecover. The spout also pro-- vides a handle by means of which the cover may be turned into locked position, or may be turned to unlock the cover. What I claim as new is:

1. Ina drier, the combination of a receptacle having an opening; means in the receptacle for extruding moisture irommaterial to be dried; a

-ring rctatably secured to the opening edge of the receptacle; a cover having a discharge passage leading from the receptacle and discharging above the ring, said cover and ring having a bayonet joint connection, the discharge passage bemg rotatively adjustable through the rotation of the ring; and a hinge between the cover and ring having hinge members axially movable to the axis of the hinge in the general line of the periphery oi the cover and ring, the axial freedom of the hinge permitting the assembly and release or the bayonet connection.

2. In a drier; the combination of areceptacle having an opening; means in thyreceptacle for extruding moisture from mate I 11 1 to-b'drled; a

ring rotati'vely secured to the; opening edge of the receptacle; a cover having a discharge passage leading from the receptacle over the ring; a hinge connection between the ring and cover; and a,

spout onsaid cover leading from the passage and extending radially from the side thereof opposite the hinge. i

'3. In a drier, the combination or a receptacle having an opening; means in the receptacle for extruding moisture irom the material to be dried; a ring rota'tively secured to the opening ing a. discharge e rotatably adjustable through the rotation of the ring.

4. In a drier. the combination of a. receptec having an opening; means in the receptacle for extruding moisture from the material to be dried;

oflngrototiveiysecuredtctheopeningedge of the receptacle;v and a cover secured to the ring and closing saidreceptacle, said cover having a discharge merotatably adjustable through the rotation of the ring, said cover and ring hav- 5 in: a bayonet Joint connection.

WALTER L. norm, 1:. 

